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Showing videos filed under: catholic church
John Fugelsang: Guns, God, and Goldman
April 21, 2010Gun advocates rallied this week in support of their right to bear arms, the Pope has said that his church has sinned, Goldman Sachs is giving out bonuses in the throes of SEC charges, and laptops are taking pictures of kids while they sleep! This may sound like a vision of the end times, but really it's just another week in the news these days.John Fugelsang, Climate Change, and Coal Goes Shopping
April 20, 2010Gun advocates rallied this week in support of their right to bear arms, the Pope has said that his church has sinned, Goldman Sachs is giving out bonuses in the throes of SEC charges, and laptops are taking pictures of kids while they sleep! This may sound like a vision of the end times, but really it's just another week in the news these days.Memories of Abuse
April 3, 2010The New York Times reported recently on yet another scandal in the Catholic Church, this one reaching as high as the current Pope. When he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the current Pope Benedict XVI was the head of the Vatican office called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1981 to 2005. While there, he failed to respond to letters reporting that Father Lawrence Murphy was responsible for sexually abusing as many as 200 deaf boys.Celebrating Nina Simone, Memories of Abuse, and Phyllis Bennis
April 2, 2010Nina Simone died seven years ago this month, but her legacy of heartfelt, transformative music that spoke truth about the injustice that she saw all around her remains. A recent tribute to her took place at New York's Harlem Stage, with members of the Black Rock Coalition, and Patricia Cruz of Harlem Stage and composer and perfomer Imani Uzuri joined us in studio to discuss Simone's impact on their careers and using music and art to carry a message to the world.Kate Clinton: Don't Mess With Nuns
March 31, 2010Kate Clinton signs up in solidarity with Catholic nuns: not only did they take on Bart Stupak and anti-health-care Republicans, they also aren't afraid of the Pope.The Census, Marie St. Cyr on Haiti, and Kate Clinton
March 30, 2010Rep. Michelle Bachmann has publicly stated that she will not fill out her census form completely, expressing concerns about the census being part of a larger effort at voter fraud led by, you guessed it, ACORN. Of course, there are other communities who have long had reasons to distrust government officials asking for their information.The F Word: Trust Just Isn't Enough
March 30, 2010I've had it with trust. Too much of it, and people will ignore the obvious. Too little of it, and they'll do exactly the same thing.Tea Party Conspiracies, Max Rameau, and Haiti
March 29, 2010In order to respond, alas, we have to understand, and that means going through the looking glass. So wrote Richard Kim of the tea party movement's latest bogeyman--the Cloward-Piven strategy, which demagogues like Glenn Beck proclaim is the strategy for destroying America and putting in place totalitarian socialism. It sounds ridiculous, Richard notes, and that's precisely why it has such power.Jobs, Thomas Frank, Copenhagen and Honduras
December 8, 2009President Obama spoke today about the need for more government action to spur job creation, but, our guests today note, the problems with unemployment and underemployment in this country aren't just results of this current recession, and they will not be fixed simply by returning to where we were.The F Word: Why Do We Trust The Church On Health?
December 8, 2009For over forty years, power-drunk Catholic leaders have accused independently-minded women of committing all manner of crimes and immoralities. It's ironic, considering church leaders' role in pervasive, prolonged and systematic child abuse.
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